Two-time Professional Fighters League champion Kayla Harrison will face the most accomplished opponent of her career to date when she squares off against Julia Budd in the PFL 6 main event.
The promotion announced the lineup for the card, which features women’s lightweights and welterweights, on Wednesday. PFL 6 takes place at Overtime Elite Arena in Atlanta on July 1 and will see Rory MacDonald square off against Sadibou Sy in the evening’s co-headliner. Two 170-pound pairings round out the main card: Ray Cooper III vs. Brett Cooper and Magomed Magomedkerimov vs. Joao Zeferino. The PFL 6 main card airs on ESPN and ESPN+ at 8:00 p.m. ET, while prelims stream on ESPN+ at 5:00 p.m. ET.
The following bouts were confirmed for the undercard: Jarrah Al-Silawi vs. Magomed Umalatov at welterweight; Larissa Pacheco vs. Genah Fabian at lightweight; Nikolay Aleksakhin vs. Gleison Tibau at welterweight; Marina Mokhnatkina vs. Abigail Montes at lightweight; Martina Jindrova vs. Zamzagul Fayzallanova at lightweight and Helena Kolesnyk vs. Vanessa Melo at lightweight.
Harrison improved her professional mark to 13-0 at PFL 3 on May 6, when she cruised to a unanimous decision triumph over Mokhnatkina. The two-time Olympic gold medalist has earned all but one of her victories under the PFL banner and has finished 10 of those triumphs inside the distance.
A former Bellator featherweight champ, Budd’s 2022 season did not begin as planned, as she dropped a three-round verdict to an overweight Fabian at PFL 3. That ended a three-bout winning streak for “The Jewel,” who still gained three points in the standings on account of her opponent missing weight. Budd is 16-4 over the course of her career, with her other three defeats coming against Cristiane Justino, Ronda Rousey and Amanda Nunes.
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